Research Article

Diffuse Optical Imaging Using Decomposition Methods

Table 3

Known positions versus retrieved positions of the scattering targets using ICA, PCA, and NMF algorithms.

TargetKnown position (mm)AlgorithmFitted position (mm)Error (mm)

1(13.0, 28.0, 30.0)ICA(12.6, 28.7, 29.1)(0.4, 0.7, 0.9)
PCA(12.6, 28.7, 28.6)(0.4, 0.7, 1.4)
NMF(12.0, 28.5, 33.0)(1.0, 0.5, 3.0)

2(53.3, 28.5, 30.0)ICA(51.0, 31.8, 26.8)(2.3, 3.3, 3.2)
PCA(50.9, 31.8, 26.7)(2.4, 3.3, 3.3)
NMF(53.3, 28.0, 30.3)(0.0, 0.5, 0.3)